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Dr. Phillip W. Serna

 

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About Dr. Phillip W. Serna, Viola da Gamba Dr. Phillip W. Serna holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Masters Degree & Doctorate from Northwestern University School of Music where he studied double bass with Michael Hovnanian and DaXun Zhang as well as viola da gamba with Mary Springfels. His doctoral project, ‘Original Crossover? Popular Ballad-Tunes as Art-Music for Viols in Seventeenth-Century England’ focused on solo and ensemble settings of ballad-tunes for viola da gamba as well as lyra viol transcriptions for double bass. Dr. Serna is an active double bass performer with numerous Chicago area & Midwest orchestras as well as a performer of violas da gamba (treble viol, tenor viol and bass viol), period double bass/ violone and vielle with period instrument ensembles as the Chicago Early Music Consort, the Newberry Consort, the Spirit of Gambo - a Chicago Consort of Viols, Ars Antigua, the Oriana Singers, the Second City Musick, the Third Coast Viols and many others. In 2007, Dr. Serna’s article ‘Early Strings in the Classroom/ Introducing Students to Renaissance and Baroque String Repertoire on Period Instruments’ on classroom outreach advocacy was published in the American String Teachers Association String Teacher's Cookbook - Creative Recipes for a Successful Program. He has contributed articles to the Bass World - the Official Magazine of the International Society of Bassists, the American String Teacher, Illinois ASTA’s the Scroll, and is an active contributor to the Arts Addict Blog, the Contrabass Conversations podcast and the online bass resource www.DoubleBassblog.org. In Early Music publications, Dr. Serna is outreach editor for the Viola da Gamba News, where he has edited and written numerous articles, and has contributed to Early Music America magazine. An active podcaster in his own right, he produces the ‘Viols in Our Schools’ video podcast brings high-quality performances of music for viols to the larger internet community. In addition to being director of ‘Viols in Our Schools’ at the Music Institute of Chicago, Dr. Serna is instructor of double bass at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, IN. He is an in-demand adjudicator and clinician in the Midwest on double bass and viola da gamba and has appeared as double bass faculty at the Whitewater Winter Bassfest, as viola da gamba faculty at the Music on the Mountain Winter Viol Workshop, Whitewater Early Music Festival and as Ad Hoc Consort Coordinator at the Viola da Gamba Society's Summer Conclave. Dr. Serna is a member of the International Society of Bassists (ISB), the American String Teachers Association (ASTA), Early Music America (EMA), the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (SSCM) and is president of the Viola da Gamba Society Third Coast, the Chicago chapter of the Viola da Gamba Society of America (VdGSA). Dr. Serna currently resides in Plainfield, IL with his best friend and wife, Magdalena along with their daughter Natalia. For more information on Dr. Serna, please visit www.PhillipWSerna.com.

 

 

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